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Lecture 2
Developing Word Power

for English Communication in Pharmacy Practice

Objectives

● To recognize the essential components in English word and the usage in pharmacy
practice
● To identify the three basic word elements, combining vowels, suffixes, and prefixes used
to build medical terms
● To learn strategies to develop word power

The most basic strategy to learn a new word is to know the origin of the word and its
family. The English words come from several origins, for instance Greek, Latin, German, French,
and Italian like the following examples:

● Greek

Ex. Apparatus, area, crisis, maximum

● Latin

Ex. Law, leg, egg, anger, knife

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